he was elected speaker and then dumped as speaker. they wanted to get rid of him and they held a majority and here is a party which manages to get back to speakership in the majority position and thanks in part to newt's amazing campaign skills. he can't govern. they dump him and he comes out and brags and at least i can be an executive. >> explain. >> well, look, he's always viewed himself as an executive, as this kind of grand figure, historical figure who, you know, led his party to the majority and can do so once again. and i think he viewed at the time -- he viewed santorum as a junior partner and even when he was losing badly i think he still viewed santorum as a junior partner and in fairness you have to get up and look in the mirror and think you can be president or else you can't get out on the campaign trail day after day after day doing what these guys do. >> the primary campaigns did revolve around trashing romney. republicans called another these days, a moderate. that was a big knock on him. here was santorum at last yea